Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez

Doug Roberts was driving from his Detroit home to his weekend DJ gig at the Dunes Resort in this western Michigan town when he heard the news that the Supreme Court had legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country. "I pulled over, appropriately to a rest stop, and posted a Facebook message to my partner, saying, 'Good news, 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court. Hey, Steve, will you marry me?'" Roberts said. His partner of 11 years not only liked that public Facebook posting, he said yes. Along with Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, Michigan was one of the states with cases before the Supreme Court involving laws that defined marriage as the union between a man and a...

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